played with Mandy and her siblings with her Mom and Auntie watching (didn't relish that) and used a man of wounds.

Mom and auntie made the usual noises "oh my gosh, it's so complicated. How do you remember all this? you do it all in your head? and the dice?" etc.

Anyway, I had a Man of Wounds stagger out of the frost witch's cave. AS SOON AS HE CAME OUT, auntie says "pull the swords out!"

They ignored her, of course, and are getting their asses handed to them for a few rounds. Then Mandy's brother rolled a 20 to shield bash the MOW into a wall--which, since it was a 20 AND a knockback, I ruled managed to knock one of the swords loose "visibly weakening" the creature.

They figured it out, though the Man still managed to kill Mandy's brother.

Man After Man, that's it! That is one mind-bending book, it's like the pictorial equivalent of Stapledon's "Last And First Men", gave me some really creepy feelings when I stumbled across that in Braintree library. Thanks!